RE: Time Delay In RPG IV

That makes a good interprocess communication scheme more important. There are some windows API's,
that come with iSeries Navigator, which will allow you to drop a message in a data queue. You could
do that whenever you finish processing a file. The message could be the name of the file you just
processed. You can then retrieve this message in your RPG and process that file. It can be
completely one way communication. You can use a dedicated data queue or a keyed data queue where both
applications know the key being used for this process. If you have to wait until a certain group of
files are finished processing, the Windows program knows when it is finished, and can send the
completion message whenever you want it to.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:03 PM
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Subject: RE: Time Delay In RPG IV


Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. The problem is that the
process I'm waiting on is a Windows Service running on a Windows 2003
Server and I'm not sure how I'd capture any state information from that
program. Even if I could, I don't think I would get anything meaningful
as it doesn't 'terminate' when it is over but merely finishes processing
the files I've put into its queue (I'm converting files from one
document type to another).

Because of that, I'm not sure how I'd be able to use a dataqueue unless
I could create a program that checks for the new file names. I've
basically done that in the same program by waiting 1 second then
checking for the existence of the files then waiting another second. It
feels a bit kludgy but I can't think of anything better.

Again, thanks for all the help,
Chris Anderson
Partners Mutual Insurance